Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(LEWIS AND CLARK.) History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark. 3 (of 6) maps. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, front boards detached; lacking first front free endpaper and part of last rear free endpaper, first 3 leaves detached, lacking most of pages I:57-64, dampstaining and foxing throughout, scattered early inscriptions on endpapers. Philadelphia, 1814
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first edition of the official account of the expedition, edited by Nicholas Biddle and Paul Allen from the journals of Meredith Lewis and other sources. It is prefaced by a long biographical sketch of Captain Lewis by none other than Thomas Jefferson.
This set is lacking the important folding map and has other issues, but may prove an affordable opportunity for a great Americana cornerstone. Graff 2477; Grolier Hundred 30; Howes L317 ("c"); Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 5a.1; Sabin 40828; Streeter sale III:1777; Wagner-Camp 13:1.